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Moses’s mother, a Levite, later identified as Jochebed ( Numbers 26:59 ), had married a Levite and given birth to a son. When she saw that he was a “fine” child, she hid him for three months and when she could do so no longer, she made a basket out of bulrushes and put him among the reeds by the river bank. Pharaoh’s daughter found him ...
2 giu 2021 · On the campaign he encounters Tharbis, the daughter of the Ethiopian king, and marries her after his victory. The Greek-Jewish author Artapanus of Alexandria (2 nd cent. B.C.E.) also recounts this same tale concerning Moses. According to this understanding, Moses has a Kushite wife in addition to his Midianite wife Zipporah.
II Judaism. Numbers 12:1 tells the story of Miriam and Aaron slandering Moses for marrying a Cushite wife: “Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he married a Cushite woman.”. From the Second Temple period on, Jewish authors and sages have debated who this woman was and why Miriam and Aaron ...
However, while Moses was uneasy at the army's lying idle, (for the enemies durst not come to a battle,) this accident happened: - Tharbis was the daughter of the king of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses as he led the army near the walls, and fought with great courage; and admiring the subtility of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the Egyptians' success, when ...
The Cushite princess, named Tharbis, watches the battle and falls in love with the valiant Moses. She goes on to help him win the battle, and he fulfils his promise in return to marry her. In some versions, Moses eventually produces a special ring that causes one to forget certain events, and puts it upon Tharbis so that she can forget him.
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By Eli Raksin. Tzipporah, the wife of Moses, is referred to as a Cushite. Why is she described as a Cushite when she actually was a Midianite? The Cushites historically were a dark-skinned people. A dark-skinned woman is a rare visage in the Torah; thus, the Torah is metaphorically describing that Tziporah was unusual in her deeds.
